The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers
(ALPSP), an organization whose goal is to disseminate academic and
professional information, has announced that the ALPSP Learned Journals
Collection (ALJC) is now online. The collection contains 247 journals
from 25 publishers.

ALJC enables small and medium-sized publishers to package their
journals with a single umbrella license. According to the announcement,
it spares customers the hassle of negotiating licenses and pricing with
many publishers, allowing them to access the e-journals directly via
SwetsWise. Swets Blackwell has orchestrated ALJC's complex
licensing structure and also serves as its worldwide access and sales
agent.

The 247 ALJC titles are available both in the full collection and
in three discipline-specific packages: Medicine and Life Science (85
titles), Science and Technology (57 titles), and the Arts, Humanities,
and Social Sciences (129 titles). Pricing is based on a percentage of
ALJC's current collective print value and is guaranteed for 3
years. Both print-plus-electronic and electronic-only options are
available. Detailed pricing information is on the ALJC Web site
(http://www.alpsp-collection.org).